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Hello, I'm using an 80GB intel mSATA drive as the boot drive in my laptop, and I'm chronically short of drive space. I have already moved most of my documents, data, media library to the laptop's 320GB HD but I still don't have much wiggle room on the SSD. So, what are the drawbacks...

Hello, My 260 GTX is overheating I think. The fan turns but the card is unusually hot to the touch and speedfan reports the temp climbing over 60C just idling with the case open. The computer crashes with garbled video if I try to do anything that uses the GPU and a memtest program had bad...

Hello, My nvidia 260GTX is suddenly showing overheating symptoms and even in "dos" programs, getting video corruption. The fan is turning so I'm not sure what's wrong other than maybe it's time to replace the card as it is clearly not reliable at this point. Yes, I blew out the dust, and it...

Hello, I need to build my wife a small home office computer and I'm looking for recommendations for the case. I'm envisioning a microATX mobo, i3 or i5 cpu, and a low-mid end ATI desktop graphics card that can drive up to 3 large format (24" widescreen) monitors. I'd like room to fit one...

Does anyone know if there are any non-crummy panels that could be swapped into a T420s? My new t420s is in the mail but it sounds like the lcd is not even close to the same quality as the rest of the laptop. My t41p lasted around 7 years before the GPU finally de-soldered itself 2 months ago...

Hello, Lenovo isn't offering any drives right now (supply problems I think) but my new T420s laptop has a slot that can be used for either a wwan or msata drive card. The intel 310 40gb msata drive supposedly works, but I was hoping for a little more capacity. The 80gb intel 310 would be...

Any tips on undervolting a Q9550? BIOS reports 1.256 currently. How low should I attempt at stock clock speeds? Thanks in advance...

Hello, I have a socket 775 E8400 based system that is plenty fast for right now, and I don't plan on doing a major upgrade for another couple of years. Intel just announced that they're not making any more core 2 quad Q9650 cpus any more, so my hopes that those cpus will eventually drop in...

Hello, I just replaced my socket 939 mobo with a new socket 775 mobo, and now I'm left with either using the stock intel cooler or buying an adaptor for my old thermalright XP-90C. The adaptor will cost about $15 after shipping is included. The question - is it worth it? The XP-90 is an...

Hello, I just got an ASUS P5Q Pro with an 8400 and 2x2gb corsair dominator DDR2-8500 (1066). Unfortunately, newegg didn't have any thermalright heatsinks in stock so I just put on the stock intel HSF so I could check the system before sending in my rebate forms. The question - where do...

Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 32MB Hard Drive $49.99 + $5 shipping CONDITION: Factory Recertified PRODUCT: 1 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB HDD Yea it's recertified but a 180 day warranty ought to catch obvious lemons...

Hello all, I'm considering buying one of the Dell displays, but I've been thwarted because I can't get reliable information on what panel type their various displays use. I'll find one site that has a list that seems good, but then I'll find another site that says Dell has recently switched...

I have an AMD X2-4400, and it works fine at stock but I was having a bit of a problem getting any stable overclock without bumping voltage. Basically core 1 would run prime95 all day, but core 0 would quit with an error after 5 minutes every time. I went up to 2.4ghz before I isolated this. I...

The latest windows update patches killed my computer. It doesn't even get to the boot logo after the update, and "logged" option in the F8 boot menu doesn't get a chance to even create the boot log file. The patches installed were: KB929338 KB929399 KB890830 Root Certificates I'm...

I have a thermaltake silent purepower 480 and it seems to work ok, but I have random system instability that just doesn't seem right considering the quality of my other components. I tried to go from an nvidia 6800GT to a 7800GS and the entire system went wonky so I returned the 7800GS. I've...

Hello, I have a problem with my username. I forgot to capitalize the first letter of my username (Flensr) so my first WU was submitted under "flensr". When I go to hardforum to try to check my stats and I enter "Flensr", the only one that comes up is "flensr" and it only has that first work...

I can't get folding to run on my ibm t41p laptop. It has the 1.7 ghz cpu and 1 gig memory. Plenty of hard drive space free as well. Folding installed ok but aborts out when it starts running. I've checked cpu and memory with various tests like prime95 and memtest and other distributed...

I just started into the folding project and had a question about folding speed on different computers. I installed the client on 2 diff computers, an A64 3700 and an old tbred 2100 1.4ghz. When the client first ran, it said something about benchmarking but for I never found any results, both...

Hello, I just bought one of the last 1905FPs from dell (they went out of stock the day after I bought mine) and I'm wondering if I got duped. All the reviews in English that I could find for the 1905FP were from around Jan 2005 and they all said that the 1905FP used a nice 8 bit LCD, but...

Hello, I'm running an A64-3200 on an msi neo-2 platinum, and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong with my cooling. I've tried both an XP-90 and XP-90C, both with an adjustable 92mm fan, and even with the fan at it's lowest speed (approx 1300 rpm) the heatsink never gets hot or even...

Hi, I can't get the ATI multimedia center to install on my ibm t41p. It uses the firegl t2 chip. The installer seems to set up, but then it aborts with no error message at all. I've tried mmc versions 8.8 through 9.03, and vid drivers from ibm, microsoft windows update, and the latest omega...

Hi, I can't get the ATI multimedia center to install on my ibm t41p. It uses the firegl t2 chip. The installer seems to set up, but then it aborts with no error message at all. I've tried mmc versions 8.8 through 9.03, and vid drivers from ibm, microsoft windows update, and the latest...

Hi, I have a 9600 AIW and I was wondering if there's any mods I can do for it. It has a passive heatsink so obviously something with a fan would be a good place to start, but other than that is there anything that can be done with it? Softmods? OC? What clocks could I expect out of this...

My original eVGA 6800GT wouldn't overclock worth a crap and then it flat out died, and I got my replacement in the mail today. It's a PNY 6800GT and right away I noticed a couple of differences... Instead of thermal paste on the ram chips, the card uses some sort of fibrous pads between the...

I have a question that I KNOW is a FAQ, but I can't find the thread with the answer. I'm running 51C/122F at load on an Athlon XP 2000+ but my system is a little loud so I'm trying to drop the fan speeds as much as possible. The question is how hot can I let the cpu run without risking it...

I just put a vantec iceberq4 pro (with the little blue led) on my Asylum gf4-4200 128 meg, and I was wondering what OC I should expect. It runs 3dmark2001SE stable at 275/470 but I've been a little reluctant to try pushing it higher. This card ran on the stock blue orb at 280/510 but recently...

Hello, I finally investigated the fan noise in my computer and found the fan on my GF4-4200 is barely turning, clearly broken/defective. I need help and suggestions on how to replace the HSF. The card is an Asylum (BFG?) GF4-4200 128 meg, and it uses the short blue-orb looking HSF. The...

Hello all, Just finished some fiddling with my T41P vid drivers and overclocking and thought I'd post my results. Tried Omega drivers, didn't want to install. In contact with Omega guy to find out why. Got ATI Cat 4.2 drivers and driverheaven driver mod tool and got the cat 4.2 drivers...